Thermostatic oil cooler control



March 5, 1946. G.' w MCENTIRE l THERuos'rATIc om cooLER coNTRoL .Y 3 Sheets-Sheet '1 Filed Oct. 19, 1942 lll INVENTOR. zjpwfhZ/f/EA/r/,ef

ATTORNEY March 5, 1946. G. w. MCENTIRE THERMOSTATIC OIL COOLER CONTROL s sheets-sheet 2 i Filed Oct. 19, 1942 mw. NN mm INVENTOR. Emme W/f/(EA/nef f-, 1 f7 1 A ORNEY.

Patented Mar. 5, 1946 2,396,053 'rnEnMosTATlc on. COOLER ooN'rRoI.l

George W. McEntire, Los Angeles, Calif., as-

signor to'The Garrett Corporation Airesearch Manufacturing Company division, Los Angeles, Calif., a corporation of California Application October 1 9, 1942, Serial No. 462.526I

17 Claims.

This invention relates to a control for use with heat exchange equipment to control the movement of a fluid stream in desired relation to the heat exchanger, and relates in particularto a control having especial utility with oil coolers of the type employed with aircraft engines, such oil coolers comprising a heat exchanger wherein the heated oil from the engine is passed in heat ex' change relation `with a flow of cooling medium comprising air, to reduce the temperature of the oil and increase its velocity to'desired values.

It is an object of the invention to provide an oiLcooler having a control which will direct the oil stream through the cooler only when its temperature has been raised abovea predetermined l5 minimum. Accordingly, during the'starting'period when the oil in the engine is cold and cold oil is pumped through the oil circulating system, the oil will be caused by the control to bypass the cooler, to facilitate warming of the oil to a normal 2o Working temperature.

A further object of the invention is to provide a cooler having a cooling chamber or core and a warm-up chamber, with a thermostatic control equipped with a bypass passage, this control acting, when the oil is cold, to direct the same through the bypass outside the cooler, then, as the oil warms up, to direct the same through the warm-up chamber of the cooler, and, as the temperature of the oil increases, to direct the oil flow through the cooling chamber or core of the cooler.

It is an object of the invention to provide a control device of the character indicated in the preceding paragraph having a valve-system for control of both the inlet and outlet, openings of the cooler, and iirst and second thermostats operatively associated with the inlet and outlet openings of the`cooler, for control of the valve system.

It is a further object of ythe invention to provide a control device for heat exchange equipment, having pressure responsive valves for protecting the cooler against excessive pressures which may develop in the oil circulating system.

It is an object of the invention to provide a controlof the character described having a valve with -means for moving the same in response to temperature changes and also in response to pressurechanges. f

A further object is to provide in a control device of this character,` a valve which vis moved in a forward direction by a thermostat which is mounted so as to move bodily in response to changes in pressure in a fluid, this movement of the thermostat in responsel to pressure change tion will be brought out in the following part of the specification.

Referring to the drawings which are for illustrative purposes only:

Fig. 1 is a schematic view showing a cooler with a control device mounted thereon as a separately manufactured unit.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary section on a plane indicated by the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

3 is a greatly enlarged longitudinally sectioned view of the ycontrol device and a portion of the cooler, taken as indicated by the line 3--3 of Fig.2. y

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3, drawn to reduced scale, showing the second position of the control parts.

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4, showing the third position of thecontrol parts.

Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 5, showing the manner in which the control releases pressure through the warm-up. chamber when congealment of oil takes place in the cooler during the operation thereof.

Fig. 7 is a view showing the manner in which the control acts to protect the cooler from excessive pressures existing in the .oil circulating system.

Fig. 8 is a fragmentary cross-sectional view on the plane indicated by the line 2-2 of Fig. l. showing my special by-pass adaptor in place.

Fig. 9 is a fragmentary cross-section'taken as indicated by the line 9--9 of Fig. 8.

. .In Fig. 1 I schematically indicate a cooler I0 comprising a cylindric shell I I defining the cooling chamber or core C of the cooler. Around the cylindric shell II there is an outer cylindric jacket I2 which defines an annular warm-up space extending substantially entirely around the exterior of the shell II. This warm-up space I3 has a warm-up inlet I4 and a warm-up outlet I5 which communicates with a core inlet port I6. The core C is provided with an outlet port IFI, and within the core C suitable baiiles for directing the flow of oil therein are'provided. such baffles being indicated .in Fig.` 1 by a single baille plate I8. It willk be understood thaty the core C-has thin walled metal tubes I9 through which a ilow of airis conducted.

A control device 20 is associated with the cooler I3 in the manner shown in Fig. 1, this' control device 23 having a shell 2| equipped with a hot oil inlet 22 for connection to the piping through which. hot oil is pumped from the engine during the normal operation thereof, and a cooled oil outlet 23 which is connected to return piping which leads to the oil reservoir of the oil circulating system. During what may be referred to as the normal operation o! the cooler, hot voil delivered to the inlet 22 will be directed to the warmup inlet I4 and, as indicated by arrows 24, will flow through the warm-up space I3 to the core vinlet I3 and the oil willthen flow through' the core C, as indicated in general by arrows 23, to the core outlet I1, and thereafter through the control device 23 to the outlet 23 connected with the return piping. as will be hereinafter described in detail.

As shown in Fig. 3, the control device shell 2| comprisesv an intermediate wall 23 having cylinders 21 and 23 extending from the opposite sides thereof. The upper wall of the cylinder l23 has therein an outlet port `'23 communicating with the outlet opening 23, and the cylinder 21 has a bypass port 33 connected to the outlet 23 by a bypassage 3|. In the lower cylinder 21 there is a port 32 which communicates with a space 33 in the lower part of the shell 2| which in turn communicates with the warm-up inlet I3, and in the lower wall of the cylinder 23 there are ports 34 and 33 in side by side relation. The port 34 communicates through a space 33 in the lower 39 the rightward thrust of a relatively heavy part of the casing 2| with the core outlet I1, and

the port 33 communicates through a space 31 with the warm-up outlet I3.

The leftward end of the cylinder 21 is closed by a removable body or wall 33 comprising a cylinder 39 having arr open end faced rightward or communicating with the interior of the cylinder 21. The ieftward end of the space within the cylinder 39 communicates through a passage 43 in the body 38 and a passage 4| in the casing 2| with. the bypassage 3|. On the rightward face of an intermediate wall 23 there is a cylinder 42 of substantially the same diameter as the cylinder 39, this cylinder 42 being open at its rightward end. The leftward end of the chamber 43 defined by the cylinder 42 communicates through a duct 43 in the shell 2| with the space 31 which idr turn communicates with the warm-up outlet A cylindric inlet valve 43 is sh'own in its initial or rst position in the cylinder 21. This valve 43 has a cylindric wall 43 with an opening or port 41 for cooperation with the bypass port 33, and a wall 48 which closes the port 32 when the valve 33 is in its iirst position. Within vtli'e cylinder 33 there is a. cylindric valve 43. This valve 49 has a cylindric wall 33, which in the ilrst position of the valve, as shown in Fig. 3, closes ports 23 and 33. 'I'he valve 43 has a projecting cylindric wall 3| containing a port 32 cooperating with the port 34 oi the cylinder 23. The wall 3|, as shown at 3|', engagesthe transverse wall 23- and serves :g a stop to limit leftward movement of the valve A relatively light compression spring 33 is disposed between the valve 43 and the intermediate wall 23 to urge the valve 43 ieftward toward the position in which' it is shown in Fig. 3, and a'relatively light spring 34 is disposed between the valve 43 and a cap 33 which closes the rightward spring 3|. The valve 43 carries an adjustable abutment in the form of an adjustably supported screw 32.

So as to lie partly within the cylinder 39, a thermostat 33 of positive displacement type is placed between the yieldable stop 33 and the centraik portion of the valve 43. A similar thermostat 34 is disposed in the cylinder 42 so that it will lie between the rightward end of the bar 33 and the adjustable abutment 32 ot the valve 49. 'I'he thermostats 33 and 34 comprise a shell 33 having cylindric end portions 33 from which thrust pins." project. The shells 33 of these thermostats 33 and 34 contain therein a substance having a relatively high rate of expansion in response to temperature rise. When the thermostats 33 and 34 are cold, the thrust pins 31 proiect only a short distance, or not at all, and, as the temperature of the thermostat is increased the value agreeing with th'e working temperature of the oil, these thrust members or pins 31 are caused to project from the ends of the thermostats 33 and 34 as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, so that the function oi these thermostats may be utilized, as will be hereinafter described.

Fig. 3 shows the condition of the control device when the oil in all of its parts is cold. For example, when an engine is first started up after a relatively long period of inactivity, the oil which passes into the cylinder 21 through the inlet opening 22, the position of which is indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3, the thermostat 33 will be in its contracted condition and the bypass port 33 will he opened so that the cold oil will flow, as indicated by arrows 38, directly from the inlet 22 through the bypassage 3| to the outlet opening 23. Heat developed ,in the engine due to its operation will warm this ilow of oil, indicated by the arrows 33, and as the temperature to which the thermostat 33 is subjected rises, the thrust pins 31 thereof will move outward so as to shift the valve 43 from the position in which itis shown inFig. 3, toward and into its second lposition shown in Fig. 4, wherein the wall 43 will substantially close the bypass port 33, and the wall 43 of thevalve 43 will open the port 32. The rightward movement of the valve'45 will be duplicated in the valve 43, since rightward movement of the valve 43 is accompanied by a like rightward movement of the bar 56 which shifts the thermostat 34 bodily rightward into the position in which it is shown in Fig. 4, and this movement of the thermostat 34 likewise forces the valve 43 rightward against the pressure of the spring'34 into the position thereof shown in Fig. 4, wherein the ports 29 and 33 are both uncovered and the wall 3| of the valve 49 covers the port 34. Therefore, when the thermostat 33 is rst heated to operative temperature, the bypass port 33 will be closed. and the flow of heated oil will then pass as indicated by, arrows 39 through the port 32 into the warm-up inlet .I4 and thence through the warm-up space I3 to the vwarm-up4 outlet i5 from whence'the flow of oil is then through the ports 35 anad 29 to the outlet opening 23 of the device.

l The initial flow of warm oil through the warmup space I3 will be somewhat cooled by the time it reaches the warm-up outlet I5, so that at rst it will have but little effect upon the thermostat 64 which is in the path of flow of the oil from the port 35 to the port 29, but as the portion of the core adjacent the shell I I increases in temperature, the heat extracted from the flow through .the warm-up space I3 will diminish in Value so that there will be a rise in temperature ofthe oil which passes across the thermostat 64. This will result in an expansion of the thermostat 64, so that its thrust pins 61 will be gradually projected toward the positions in which they are shown in Fig. 5. This will result in a movement of the valve 49 rightward from the position in which it is shown in Fig. 4 toward its position of Fig. 5, and the wall 5I of the valve will be moved from a position closing the port 34 to a position closing the port 35, at which time the port 34 will be open as shown in Fig. 5. As indicated by the arrows in Fig. 5, the flow of hot oil -from the warm-up outlet I5 will be downward through the core inlet port I6, through the cooler core and thence to the cooler outlet I1, from whence the oil will pass as indicated by arrows 1I through the port 34 to the port 29 which is connected to the outlet 23. Fig. 5, accordingly, shows the positions of the internal parts of the control device during the normal operation of the cooler.

Should there occur within the core of the cooler a resistance to the flow of oil therethrough, for exampleas the result of congealment of oil in the core of the coolerthere will be a buildup in the pressure in the cooler inlet port I6 andA the warm-up space I3, so that pressure existing in the warm-up outlet I5 vand the space 31 of the casing 2| will be transmitted through the duct 44 to the leftward end of the chamber 43 defined by the cylinder 42, as indicated by arrows 12 in Fig. 6. This pressure will be exerted against the leftward face of the thermostat 64 to shift the same bodily rightward, thereby moving the valve 49 from the position in which it is shown in Fig. 5 toward and into the position thereof disclosed in Fig. 6, which movement of the valve 49 will -carry the'wall 5I thereof rightward into a position wherein at least a portion of the port `35 will be opened to permit a bypass flow of oil from the core outlet I5 through the port 35 to the port 29, as indicated by arrows 14 in Fig. 6, while at the same time thereby may continue to be some flow of oil along the path indicated by the arrows 10. As the con--Y gealment of oil in the cooler core thaws out, the flow of oil through the path indicated by the arrows 10 will increase and as the result of the corresponding pressure drop in `the warm-up outlet I5 and the chamber 43 connected thereto, the thermostat 64 and the valve 49 will b'e permitted to move leftward so as to return to the positions thereof shown in Fig. 5.

If during the normal operation of the cooler,l

with the control parts positioned as shown in Fig. 5, there should bean unusual rise in pressure transmitted through the inlet 22 into the cylinder 21, such increased pressure will act left- Ward against the thermostat 63 which is disposed in the cylinder 39 in the manner of a movable Fig. 7. The spring 53 may then shift the valve a corresponding distance leftward so that its wall 48 will close the port 32 and protect the cooler I0 from this excess pressure, and this left.-

ward movement of the valve 45 will open the' port 30, as shown in Fig. 7, so that the pressure increase may be transmitted through the bypassage 3l to the outlet opening 23 and the return piping connected thereto. At the same time the spring 54 will shift the valve 49 and the ther-v mostat 64 leftward into the positions in they are shown in Fig. '7.

A feature of the invention lies in the provision which lof means whereby the oil from the engine, during the starting period prior to the warming of the oil to such temperature that cooling. thereof is required, is bypassed around both the cooler and the oil reservoir. The arrangement is such that during the starting and warm-up .period of an engine, the crank case oil is circulated through a closed path until the oil has warmed up to operating temperature, after which the oil is delivered to the oil reservoir.

Referring to Fig. 3, it Will be noted that there is a port 80 opposite the port 30, which port 80 is covered by a closure plate BI when the control unit is employed in the manner previouslydecribed herein to divert the cold oil from the inlet 22 through the passage 3l to the outlet 23 which leads to the reservoir, as indicated by arrows 68.

When the invention is employed under conditions requiring a quick warm-up of the engine or where normal warm-up of the engine is retarded by temperature conditions, the cover plate 8I is removed and a fitting 82 is secured in the port 80 as shown in Fig. 8 and Fig. 9. This fltting 82 has an inwardly projecting tubular wall 83 oz' rectangular cross-section corresponding to theA the walls forming the port 30. At the outer end piping 81 Athrough which the oil may be carried of the passage 85 formed by the tubular wall 83 there is a port 85 for connection to oil return back to the inlet of the pressure pump serving the engine. Accordingly, during the warm-up period of the engine, when the oil fed through the inlet opening 22 of the device is cold, the' thermostat 63 will maintain the valve member 45 in a position opening the port 30 so that the cold oil may ow directly back to the engine through a closed circuit formed in part by the piping 81.

I claim as my invention:

1. In an oil cooling device for the circulatory lubricating system of an internal combustionengine, the combination of: a cooler having an oil chamber; inlet means for connecting lsaid cham-v ber so that it will receive hot oil from said engine;

duit connecting said inlet means and said outlet means for bypassing said chamber; avalve de against the `force of the spring y6I, as `shown in vice for closing said conduit; a thermostat respon sive to the temperature of the oil adjacent said chamber and conduit and connected to said valve devicefor operation thereof, to open and close said conduit under normal pressure conditions in correspondence with temperatures below and above a predetermined value respectively; and a fluid pressure operated device responsive to a pressure diiierential between said inlet and outlet in excess of a predetermined value for bodily moving said thermostat in a direction and for a dis.` tance which lserves when said conduit is closed, to operate said valve device to open said conduit.

2. The combination deiined in claim 1 in which said valve device is constructed to prevent oil now through said chamber while opening said conduit and toner-mit said flow while closing said conduit.

3. In an oil cooling device for the circulatory lubricating system of an internal combustion engine, the combination of: a cooler having an inlet for connection to the hot oil delivery means of said engine and an outlet for connection to the return means of said engine; bypassage means for said cooler; a valve for opening said bypassage means; a thermostat responsive to the temperature of the oil in said inlet connected to close said valve at temperatures above a predetermined temperature and open said valve at lower temperatures; a movable Wall connected to bodily move said thermostat to: open and close said valve bytransverse movements of said wall in one and the opposite directions respectively and exposed on the transverse side facing in said one direction to the oil pressure in said inlet and on the transverse side facing in said opposite direction to the oil pressure in said outlet whereby a differential presstatically controlled means responsive to the temperature of oil approaching said cooler for passing the oil through the cooler or the ilrst 'oypassage in correspondence to temperatures above or below a iirst predetermined value respectively; and a second thermostatically controlled means responsive to the temperature of the oil returning to the engine for passing the oil leaving the secondary chamber through the second bypassage addition thereto: fluid pressure controlled means responsive to the pressure differential between said inlet chamber and return piping for closing sure of predetermined value between said inlet and outlet opens said valve; and means additionalV to said thermostat for closing said valve again-st a pressure diierential less than said predetermined value.

4. Inan oil cooling device for the circulatory lubricating system of an internal combustion engine, the combination of a cooler having an oil chamber provided with heat transfer walls between the oil in said chamber and said medium; inlet means connecting the hot oil delivery piping to said chamber; outlet means connecting said chamber to the return oil piping; bypassage means connecting said inlet and outlet means; a valve device for alternatively shutting off oil flow either through said bypassage or said chamber, while permitting flow through said chamber or bypassage respectively; a thermostat in said outlet means connected to operate said valve device to shut off oil through said bypassage or said chamber in correspondence with an increase or decrease in oil temperature above or below a predetermined value; and a fluid pressure operated device connected to be responsive to the pressure diierential between said inlet and outlet for bodily moving said thermostat in correspondence with a pressure differential above a predetermined value resulting from closing said bypassage, in a direction and f or a distance which when said bypassage means is closed serves to operate said valve device to open saidbypassage means.

5. In an oil cooling device for the circulatory 'lubricating system of an internal combustion engine, the combination of: a cooler having a primary oil chamber provided with heat transfer walls between the oil in said chamber and said medium and having a secondary oil chamber disy posed in heat exchange relation with said primary chamber and being relatively devoid of cooling means, each of said chambers having an inlet and an outlet; inlet chamber means for conveying hot oil to said secondary chamber inlet; passage means connecting said secondary chamber outlet with said primary chamber inlet; outlet chamber means for carrying cooled oil away from said primary chamber outlet; a ilrst bypassage conduit connecting said inlet chamber to said outlet said secondary chamber inlet and said outlet chamber outlet and opening said first bypassage in correspondence with pressure diiierentials in excess of a predetermined value.

8. The combination defined in claim 5 and in addition thereto: iluid pressure controlled means responsive to the pressure differential between said passage and said outlet chamber for opening said second bypassage in correspondence to pressure differentials in excess of a predetermined value.

f 9. The combination defined in claim 5 and in addition thereto: iiuid pressure controlled means responsive to the pressure diderential between said inlet chamber and return piping for closing said secondary chamber inlet and said outlet chamber outlet and opening said first bypassage in correspondence with pressure differentials in excess of a nrst predetermined value; and fluid Apressure control means responsive to the pressure differential between said passage and said outlet chamber for opening said second b'ypassage in correspondence to pressure differentials in excess of a second and lower predetermined' value.

10. In anoil cooling device for the circulatory lubricating system of an internal combustion engine, the combination of a cooler having' a primary oil chamber provided lwith heat transfer walls between the oil in said chamber and said medium and having a secondary oil chamber disposed in heat exchange relation with said primary chamber and being relatively devoid of cooling means, each of said chambers having an inlet and an outlet; inlet chamber means for delivering hot oil to said secondary chamber inlet; pasv sage means connecting said secondary chamber for bypassing both said primary and secondary chambers; a second bypassage cond-uit connecting said passage to said outlet .chamber for bypassing said primary chamber: a first thermooutlet withA said primary chamber inlet; outlet chamber means for discharge of oil from said primary chamber outlet; a iirst bypassage conduit connecting said inlet chamber to said outletchamber for bypassing both said primary and secondary chambers; a second bypassage conduit connecting said passage to said outlet chamber for bypassing said secondary chamber; iluid pressure controlled means responsive to the pressure differential between said inlet chamber and outlet chamber for closing said secondary chamber inlet and said outlet chamber outlet and for opening said nrst bypessage in correspondence with pressure differentials in excess o1' a nrst predetermined value; and liiuicl pressure controlled means responsive to the pressure dinerential between said passage and said outlet chamber for opening said second bypassage in correspondence to pressure diierentials in excess of a second and lowei` predetermined value.-

1l. In a regulated valve mechanism, automatically responsive to both temperature and pressure conditions of a fluid stream: an inlet chamberhaving 'an outlet; a thermostat responsive to the temperature of the fluid; a valve member connected to be moved by the live end of said thermostat; a movable wall spaced from said valve member connected to move the dead end of said thermostat; and stops limiting movement of the dead end of said thermostat, said thermostat being disposed in said inlet chamber, and one side of said wall for receiving pressure to move `the valve member away from said stop being exposed to fluid pressure in said inlet chamber and the other side of said wall being exposed to the fluid pressure in said outlet passage.

12. In a regulated valvemechanism, automatically responsive to both temperature and pressure' conditions of a fluid stream: av thermostat responsive to the temperature of the fluid; a Valve member connected to be moved by the live end of said thermostat; a movable wall connected to move the dead end of said thermostat; a stop limiting operative movement of said dead end of said thermostat in the direction of said live end by said movable wall; yieldable means to resist movement of said dead end in the other direction away from 'said stop; and walls confining said stream and defining an inlet chamber. outlet passage, la cooling chamber between said inlet chamber and outlet passage,and a bypassage between said inlet chamber and outlet passage which bypasses said cooler chamber, said valve member having a valve for opening and closing the cooler and a valve for synchronously closing and opening the bypassage respectively as said live end moves in a direction away from or toward said dead end respectively, and said thermostat being disposed in said inlet chamber and that side of said wall for receiving pressure to move the valve member away from the stop being exposed to uid pressure in said inlet chamber and the other side of said wall being exposed to the fluid pressure ih said outletV passage.

13. In a regulated valve mechanism, automatically responsive to both temperature and pressure conditions of a fluid stream: a thermostat responsive to the temperature of the fluid; a valve member connected to be moved by the live end of said thermostat; a movable wall connected to move the dead end of said thermostat; a stop limiting operative movement of said dead end of said thermostat in the direction away from said live end by said movable wall; yieldable means to hold said dead end against movement in the other direction away from said stop; and wallsfconfining said stream and defining an inlet passage, outlet chamber, a cooling chamber between said inlet passage and outlet chamber, and a by-` passage between said inlet passage and outlet chamber which bypasses said cooler chamber, said valve member having a slide valve for openihg and closing the cooler outlet and a slide valve for synchronously closing andv opening the bypassage respectively as said live end moves in a direction away from or toward said dead end respectively, and said thermostat being disposed in said inlet chamber and that side of said wall for receiving pressure to move the valve member away from the stop being exposed to fluid pressure in said inlet passage and the other side of said wall said piston.

being exposedv to the fluid pressure in said outlet chamber, said thermostat being longitudinally expansible and said wall being a piston. both said thermostat and said wall being movable in parallelism with the movement of said slide valves and said wall being a piston mounted on the dead end of said thermostat and being slidable within a closed cylinder connected to said inlet passage and said yieldable means being a coiled spring mounted in said Voutlet chamber and bearing against 14. In an oil cooling device for the circulatory lubricating system of an internal combustion f engine, the combination of a cooler having an oil chamber; inlet means for carrying hot oil to said chamber; outlet means from which the cooled oil is carried off from said chamber; a bil-passageA conduit connecting said inlet and said outlet for bypassing said chamber; a rst valve between said inlet means and chamber; a second valve between said chamber and outlet means; a third valve for opening and closing said bypassage; a thermostat in said inlet means having its live end connected upon expanding movement to close said third valve and synchronously open said first and second valves and upon contracting movement to open said third valve and close said first and second valves; and a fluid pressure operated device responsive to the pressure diiI'erential between said inlet means and outlet means for moving the dead end of said thermostat from ah irntial position in a direction away trom said live end in response to a pressure differential exceeding a predetermined value.

l5. The combination defined in claim 14 and in addition thereto: a iiuid pressure operated device responsive tol the pressure differential chamber; inlet means for carrying hot oil to Said chamber; outlet means from which `the cooled oil is carried off from said chamber; 'a'bypassageconduit connecting said inlet andsaid outlet for bypassing said chamber; a first normally open valve -between said inlet means and chamber; a second normally open valve between said chamber and outlet means; a third normally closed valve for opening and closing said bypassage; and a fluid pressure operated device responsive to the pressure differential between said inlet means and outlet means to open said third valve and close said first and Asecond Valves.

17. In a device for responding to the conditions of a stream of fluid confined under pressure, the combination of a first fluid chamber means connected to receive and discharge fluid; a second fluid chamber means connected to receive and discharge fluid; conduit means between said chambers; a first regulating means; a second regulating means; a lirst thermostat in said first fluid chamber having its live end connected to actuate said first regulating means; walls defining a first cylindric chamber opening into said rst fluid chamber; a. piston in said first cylindric chamber connected to actuate the.

dead end of said first thermostat in a direction toward the live end thereof; conduit means connecting the inner end portion of said first cylindric chamber to a station on said stream outside normally less than that in said iirst chamberz` a iirst stop limiting movement of the dead end of said first thermostat in a direction toward saidlive end; a means for' yieldably holding the dead end oi said first thermostat against said rst stop; a second stop limiting movement of the dead end or the first 'thermostat in the other direction: a second thermostat in said second fluid chamber having its live end connected to actuate said second regulating. means. the live end of said flrst thermostat having a separable end thrust connection with the dead end oi said second thermostat: walls dening a second cylindric l chamber opening into said second uid chamber:

- of said ilrst fluid chamber and of a fluidpressure GEORGE W. MCENTIRE. 

